Thursday, February 23, 2012

For even a layman would know that what is needed is at least a good curriculum, good teachers, adequate facilities, and cost, if you can. Then the rest is probably a conducive environment, highly competitive, and any other aspects that are outside the school room.

It seems that it is available in Singapore. Comparison of the education system in Singapore and Indonesia such as earth and sky seemed. Singapore Ministry of Education (Ministry of Education) seems a lot more work and give great attention to the development of education rather than using education as a source of sustenance for the individual or department officials.

From primary schools to universities, for example, students are monitored and directed to obtain a suitable education for him. So, not all citizens deserve or get free university in Singapore. For those who do not deserve to go to university in Singapore, was free to study abroad in accordance with parents' ability, but not free to go to university in Singapore if it does not pass certain tests.

With per capita income of more than 24,000 U.S. dollars per year, Singapore is the richest in the world. However, Singapore does not generalize that all citizens must be able to. The cost of schools in Singapore is relatively cheap. What is needed is beyond the cost of tuition as a smooth supporting schools, transportation, books, and more.

For families who can not afford, the government provides scholarships if necessary. It is provided to ensure that poverty is not a barrier to education.

Although the car is not a problem for most people in Singapore, for the smooth transport their children are the various modes of transportation, ranging from the MRT, combined with a series of city buses that have access to all schools. For transportation to and from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), for example, is a variety of bus lines that cut into the university complex in Jurong.

What else? Classrooms, library, cafeteria, and a place to relax is also available. Classrooms are arranged in a clean and make the students can see teachers or lecturers and vice versa lecturer or teacher can monitor all of their students. Class is equipped with equipment that allows teachers to do presentations through slide that has been inherent in every school room so no need to fuss every time you make a presentation. Do not hesitate to eat in school canteens, kind enough, relatively healthy, and cheaper.

Internet access to all the classrooms are also available and free just by signing up to get the ID of the schools and universities. That was deliberately done to make students have easy access to information. Sometimes the lesson material has also been displayed on internet sites that make students able to access the on-line.

Lecturers and teachers in Singapore are also no less professional. With a relatively adequate salaries, the people turned to be a teacher. Not all teachers are from Singapore alone.

With a population of a little, just over 4 million people, Singapore require a supply teacher. For that teachers sometimes imported from other countries. For the university level, for example, NTU and the National University of Singapore (NUS) do not hesitate to offer high salaries to match salaries in the Harvard Business School. "We do have to compete and offer a considerable stimulus to attract people who have the talent of the world," the professor at NTU, Ang Wah Poo.

Lecturers at NTU, for example, not a few who become great people in his home country and then recruited a lecturer in Singapore. The problem, Singapore intends to make himself the center of an international-class education, having succeeded in making himself the center of excellent health care in Southeast Asia.

Activities in universities and schools are not limited to the teaching-learning event routine in the classrooms. Almost every month featured guest speakers of international caliber to bring new topics found in the world.

The Singapore government did not hesitate to bring in, for example, Michael Porter, Philip Kottler, world-renowned management expert, as well as professors of international caliber, but Singapore is expensive tariffs are not stingy about it.

So, in addition to science, students are also given insight by attending seminars is free but very good quality. Do not imagine their presentations such as teachers or lecturers who were recruited to be a teacher just P4 which makes us sleepy in the country during the New Order.

Crazy again, schools, universities and educational institutions in Singapore did not stop glancing at the development of education in other countries. Thus, there was such an alliance between the business school at NTU and the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Such an alliance is allowed to be stimulated by the respective faculties. University only gives approval. Autonomy of each faculty is made in such a high and left to be able to think about their own self-development. About funding, does not seem to be a problem. NTU, for example, already has the endowment fund from the government amounting to 200 million Singapore dollars.

So, do not be surprised if the NTU, NUS, Singapore Management University and easily build an alliance with Harvard University, Wharton School, and other first-class universities in the U.S.. International cooperation in education is also conducted by many countries. However, the advancement of education in the U.S. to make Singapore more oriented to the U.S..

Singapore students often get the opportunity to undertake a study tour to explore the world. For students who can be left to pay his own, but with a university subsidy. However, for those who can not afford available scholarships that allow them to stay at the hotel, such as the JW Marriott. Imagine, for example, for one and a half months at the Nanyang MBA graduate student living in an apartment Fellowship Programme managed by the JW Marriott in Boston.

So, the question is not on the facilities and scholarships. Students live provide the time and inclination to learn to persevere without having to be bothered by the lack of cost. Not only that, the Government of Singapore is not only willing to educate its citizens, but also willing to recruit prospective students and students from neighboring countries and to offer scholarships and job opportunities in Singapore. Therefore, do not be surprised if there were withered away from Padang to Klaten studying in Singapore with the assistance, including plane fare to go home during the holidays.

Singapore's aware of the potential labor shortage. Singapore's intention to offer a scholarship rather than simply making them a force in Singapore one day. For students who return to work in their home country, at least expected to be a people who know and love with Singapore and Singapore could be the network at a later date.

Not only that, by inviting students from outside, the Singaporean government to make its citizens used to automatically associate the internationally while still in school. That's according to Singapore's position as a regional hub so that residents do not become like the frog in the bottom shell. Speaking of the syllabus and curriculum, the department of education in Singapore each day worked for the evaluation. Any new developments are always inserted at the new syllabus.

So, that education in Singapore, rather than simply providing good facilities and infrastructure, but continued to perform up-dating from year to year. It's all done as a manifestation of the vision and mission of education in Singapore.

Not only that, the climate of competition among families and communities in Singapore to be one of the key secrets of success of education in Singapore. Imagine, parents, colleagues, spouse, or girlfriend as "forcing" students and students to become a champion or not at all. There was only one champion. However, in principle, all vying to get the best value and not infrequently a large number of students had the same A value of everything.

What is lack of education in Singapore?

Nothing compared to education in Indonesia, for example. Which may still be lacking is the courage of students and student talk in the classroom and questioned the truth of the state system is not so free. Singaporean students in the class are not so fussy as people. This is realized by PM Lee Hsien Loong (BG Lee). Freedom of expression nationally ala Singapore was affected in these classes. Thus, BG Lee is now offering a new paradigm, namely freedom of speech.

You see, strange indeed if the class were friendly, according to student need. Did not intend to seek the truth of education is wrong, including the Singapore-style dictatorship that was started by former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.